Tag Archives: Mental fixations

SELF-TAUGHT

Posted on November 5, 2025 by tony

Self-Taught Our path to enlightenment is a matter of undoing our mental fixtures and fittings – the ideas we hold onto and fixate about which create an illusion of self and the world around us. We are pure being that … Continue reading →

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WORSHIPPING A BUDDHA

Posted on August 28, 2024 by tony

Worshipping A Buddha Worshipping a Buddha is worshipping a form, an idea. Better to be practical, and acknowledge the worth of a Buddha through experience. Enlightenment is the experience of being a nobody; we are devoted to reality, and not … Continue reading →

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THE PROBLEM WITH IDENTIFYING FIXATIONS

Posted on May 30, 2019 by tony

The Problem With Identifying Fixations Realisation of our natural, true nature is only obscured by conceptual fixations in the mind. These aren’t easy to spot because it’s what we think we are. Fixations are obsessive attachments which we carry around, … Continue reading →

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STILL WORRIED ABOUT EGO?

Posted on April 26, 2019 by tony

Still Worried About Ego? When something is observed, heard, smelt, tasted or touched – or when we’re having a poo – none of these activities are ego-orientated. Ego is the collection of mental fixations to which we cling, and that … Continue reading →

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MENTAL FIXATIONS

Posted on May 30, 2013 by tony

Mental Fixations.  Mental Fixations. What are they?  I have loads of fixated ideas wandering around in my brain. We are told that fixations come from our own likes and dislikes – the two universal poisons of Hope/Fear and Repulsion/Attraction – … Continue reading →

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